Boat How

About Boat How

Boat How, also known as Eskdale Moor, rises near Boot with Burnmoor Tarn to the north, the River Mite to the west and Whillan Beck to the east. What sets it apart is archaeology rather than height: Wainwright, describing an anticlockwise circuit from Boot in The Outlying Fells of Lakeland, called it a happy hunting ground for walkers with an eye for relics of days long past, and noted four stone circles.

Naming is inconsistent. Richards, in the Fellranger series, treats the hill as Eskdale Moor with Boat How as the summit outcrop, and describes approaches from Dalegarth station, Miterdale Forest or Eskdale Green, calling it a tract of fascinating moorland between Miterdale and Eskdale. Historic England uses Burnmoor for a wider area taking in ground north of the tarn, described as containing an abundance of prehistoric remains.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Boat How (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

General position for England — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in England · check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 54.419, -3.269. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is single stone embedded in grass. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level

Record revised

25-Jan-24

Drop measured from

NY178039 · 259 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Which hill this one belongs to

Boat How is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Illgill Head (609 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 259 m.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks